Tell Wal-Mart to Stop Promoting Religious Violence

[Ian David]

Tell Wal-Mart to Stop Promoting Religious Violence

'Tis the season to slaughter non-Christians in the name of God.

As we highlighted last week, just in time for Christmas 2006, Tim LaHaye and the Bible publishing company Tyndale House have released the video game version of LaHaye’s apocalyptic Left Behind series — “Left Behind: Eternal Forces.” Like the book series, the game takes place in a post-rapture world, and pits Christians against the forces of the anti-Christ. While the game has no blood — a tactic employed to keep its rating below M for Mature — players are tasked with converting or killing non-believers which can include Jews, Muslims, and Catholics.

Ironically both Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council recently sent out messages regarding violent video games without even acknowledging the existence of “Left Behind: Eternal Forces.” While this extreme message can be expected from the religious right, we’re hoping to encourage the nations #1 seller of video games — Wal-Mart — to stop selling the religious violence that this game promotes.

Take action here and send a letter to Wal-Mart’s CEO, urging him stop pushing religious violence this holiday season.
http://ga3.org/campaign/tell_wal_mart

Please forward this to everyone you know, especially religious Americans. Is this really how Christians want their faith represented?

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[wtmusic]

1. Non-Christian Catholics should probably be put out of their misery nt

[hughee99]

2. I agree...

They should go back to selling the regular violence like "Grand Theft Auto", the demonic violence of "Doom", the mob violence of "The Sopranos" and "The Godfather", the Alien violence of "Destroy all Humans" and the Lego on Lego violence of "Star Wars: Legos".

[lapfog_1]

3. If it's post rapture, how come there are any Christians left?

This whole thing doesn't make any logical sense (not that I expect it should).

If Christ returns and all the "saved Christians" are sent directly to heaven, who is left here on earth to pick a fight with the forces of the anti-christ? And if Christ returns himself to rule (and brings the heavenly host with him, i.e. all those saved people, dead or alive, like zombies I guess), who will oppose him here on earth? The Catholics? The Jews? Even the Hindus and Muslims and everyone else?

And if there is all this killing to be done in the name of Jesus... and Jesus has returned, why doesn't he take care of it?

[liberalsoldier5]

4. Seriously. This is fucking ridiculous.

I absolutely HATE it when Catholics (like myself) are treated like "fake Christians." We're the originals for God's sake!

The only reason a majority of Catholic voters chose Bush over Kerry WHO IS FREAKING CATHOLIC is because the conservative protestants/evangelicals/fundamentalists found common ground with Catholics on the abortion and gay marriage issues. Nevermind that Bush signed the death warrants of countless criminals back when he was governor of Texas- a punishment that the Pope and the Vatican have condemned repeatedly! (Sorry to go off on a tangent, just some leftover steam from 2004...)

[Ian David]

5. No personal offense to you, but I for one am GLAD the various Xian sects hate each other

Can you imagine the harm they could do if every single christian sect agreed to cooperate and force some kind of "Consensus christianity" upon the entire country?

[Ian David]

6. I walked into Wal-Mart today for the first time in years to see if they had this

Either the local Wal-Mart isn't carrying it, or else it sold-out to parents eager to teach their children to kill for jee-zuss.

You know, I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think it's technically illegal to go to Wal-Mart and hide all the copies of this game in various, dark nooks and crannies of the store. If you don't damage it, if you don't steal... if you just hide it...

They had three copies of this at Target, but I don't think anyone will find them anytime soon.

That's just a satirical riff.

[Meeker Morgan]

7. Are you quite certain this game is targeted to children?

Or produced by real fundies?

It sounds like bad taste humor to me.